A GIRLS' BOATING CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 724, 25 January 1910, Page 3

A GIRLS' BOATING CLUB.

i i-A number; oij Sydney girls. , have formed /■, themselves-- into; a boating, 'club,-; /the'/idea. .■'being' to make :up/'parties'; for. excursions' .: to .differenfcparts.ot'A their ■beaiitiful.-harT ; bohr.:':-The?rules jof vtha.-club 'are :/cxcel-. plenty'iNo/girl ■is v ;allowed'';to.-:becomp: a i-member '■■pi ,"the /Boating"'Club..'.•unless; L sho \i cau'pass:;a j satisfactory- test in- swimming ■~: a nd: ; life-saving4that'as,,'slieimust /to i/reniaiii^ailbat , in'.deep ■water.l'for; 30. -Fminutes,'syrim'at:least;the.leEgth'rof j the' .' ordinary".bathing'establishments, and dive ;'in\loft./.of-:/water; .'A - : levy -.not 'exceeding ;■/ inadp \- t orU'the/'hiro/ ; :of. th6 : -b6it^i..aud;contributi6ris;:t6;.''ouf>of- : //door" meals"nre'.iexpected,:fromicach. girl/■ ■-.VNo-b'oat'Jsalldwe'dtb:contain more than -: .eight;S gii-10 and.: strict .'"attention -to ; ; the is"requircdJ. Parents : 'and.iguardians.,:ivho-lat'/first -.objected to' ; : 'thornsk ;df' a .number of "girls'; without a ;/ man\in open; boats,-' and'.•prophesied' dire •i j ;dinasterß;.'.frpm;::.tho;i experiment, .'/liaye V-gradually : settled .do'iyii -to ."expecting"; northing //worse. than;" a. l ew blisters. on tho ■ihands ' and ',%'■ stiff;- feeling; from 'muscles • .not usually exercised; -Occasionally vcuUnej.'aid• is'called.'.in'.'when ;tho';tide ; ;-iuns :out, ;.'a'nd.. sand: banks \ f make, their .appearance, fbr.if there'is^pfae , thing, that '. membors'of ;.ths boating cliibobject-to it : -is. wading in ■ mud, which" mav crawly- 'things '" •. tnough;-they- hav-e",dbno eyen'"this. ■'■'■ ■ :■•'■